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How popular is the name Annabel?
Births per year, rank history and how many Annabels are alive today.
Annabel (female), once a common girls' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 361st in 2025 with 119 given the name. The name peaked in 2010, when 525 babies were given the name, the 110th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 1998, with 448 babies given the name that year. It has declined since 2010; the 2025 figure is roughly 23% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 10,000 babies have been named Annabel in England and Wales since 1996.
The Annabel you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Annabels born in England and Wales are between 14 and 29, and there are at least 13,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 4% chance that at least one of them will be called Annabel.
How many babies are named Annabel each year?
Where does Annabel rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Annabel most popular?
Annabel peaked in 2010, when 525 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Annabel?
At least 13,000 people named Annabel born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Annabel?
Most living Annabels are between 14 and 29; the most common age is about 15.
Is Annabel becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2010 peak.